Recaps

Ling'er explained that her ghostly body shifted between reality and illusion, making Li Tian's material attacks unable to touch her. After his axe strikes all missed, she sent a translucent shadow through his defenses and struck the surface of his Primordial Spirit core.

• Li Tian questioned how Ling'er had let his axe light pass through her without dodging.
• Ling'er said she was the Chaos Ancient Clan's existence closest to a ghost and that attacks had to reach her source to harm her.
• Li Tian launched a faster barrage of axe lights, but Ling'er turned parts of her body into mist and avoided every strike.
• As Li Tian's final axe lights faded, Ling'er sent a white shadow through the arena's barriers toward him.
• Ling'er's Dao of Ghosts pierced Li Tian's spiritual platform and touched his Primordial Spirit core.

Ling'er explained that her Ghost's Touch attacked Li Tian's Primordial Spirit and warned that repeated hits would eventually shatter it. Li Tian endured the pain and frost spreading through his arm as she offered him a chance to surrender.

• Li Tian felt a piercing cold pain erupt from his Primordial Spirit, and frost spread across his right arm.
• Ling'er revealed that the attack was Ghost's Touch, which damaged the Primordial Spirit with every strike.
• Ling'er explained that repeated attacks would progressively fracture Li Tian's Primordial Spirit until it shattered.
• Ling'er warned Li Tian that his axe could miss and still expose him to another Ghost's Touch, then offered him a chance to surrender.
• Li Tian inspected his frozen arm and remained silent.

Li Tian changed tactics against Ling'er, using his dark-gold Force Law to catch her as she shifted between mist and solid form. His axe grazed her arm as she reformed, leaving a dark-gold slash on her white dress.

• Li Tian decided to keep fighting despite Ling'er's ability to stab his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Tian flooded his axe with dark-gold Force Law, making its aura three times heavier.
• Li Tian lunged at Ling'er with his left arm while swinging his axe backward to intercept her return to solid form.
• Li Tian's axe missed Ling'er's body but its Force Law ripples grazed her left arm and marked her dress.
• Ling'er cried out as dark-gold light flickered along the slash in her sleeve.

Li Tian identified Ling'er's condensation habit and struck her true body, but Ling'er revealed that her Ghost's Touch had planted two icy marks in his spiritual platform. She demonstrated a full-strength attack with a hair-thin white thread.

• Ling'er acknowledged that Li Tian had read her condensation pattern and grazed her true body with his axe light.
• Li Tian explained that Ling'er always condensed half a foot to the left of her original position, and Ling'er admitted it was a bad habit.
• Ling'er told Li Tian that Ghost's Touch had already sent another chill into his spiritual platform, leaving him with two icy cracks.
• Ling'er explained that each Ghost's Touch left an ice mark on an opponent's Primordial Spirit and warned that full strength would be more dangerous.
• Ling'er condensed a silver-white ripple into a hair-thin thread and shot it toward Li Tian.

Li Tian endured Ling'er’s attack and learned that she had used only sixty percent of her strength. He changed his fighting style, gathering his force into his body and axe to prepare for close combat.

• Li Tian blocked Ling’er’s white line with his axe, but a tiny fragment struck behind his left ear and caused severe icy pain.
• Li Tian recovered from the blow, though frost spread across his body and blood froze at the corner of his mouth.
• Ling’er told Li Tian that her attack had used sixty percent of her strength.
• Li Tian gathered his Force Law into his body and axe, then announced that he would fight Ling’er at close range.

Li Tian used his compressed Force Law to strike Ling'er while she was intangible, forcing her back into solid form and injuring her. The dark-gold wound continued to erode her Ghost Law protection as silver-white mist escaped from her lips.

• Li Tian approached Ling'er, compressing the Force Law entirely into his body and explaining that a direct hit would crush her.
• Li Tian thrust his axe at Ling'er, who turned intangible and drifted aside.
• Li Tian adjusted his thrust to follow Ling'er's movement and cut deeply into her white-mist form.
• Ling'er was forced back into solid form with a dark-gold scorch mark on her dress and Ghost Power scattered by the blow.

Li Tian identified the direction of Ling'er's phasing and continued attacking despite the damage Ghost's Touch inflicted on his Primordial Spirit. He landed a second hit, while Ling'er's phasing slowed and Li Tian's injuries worsened.

• Li Tian explained that he had read the mist's flow to predict Ling'er's phasing direction and said he would aim each axe strike accordingly.
• Ling'er warned that every strike left another crack in Li Tian's Primordial Spirit through Ghost's Touch.
• Li Tian swung a second axe toward Ling'er's likely dodge route, then redirected it as she phased left and cut into the mist.
• The strike forced Ling'er out of her phased state with a scorch mark on her right arm, while Li Tian suffered a fourth crack in his Primordial Spirit and began bleeding.
• Li Tian said Ling'er's phasing had slowed after being hit twice, making it easier for him to land further attacks.

Ling'er stopped relying on intangibility and unleashed her Myriad Frost Domain, which slowed Li Tian's body, Saintly Breath, and Force Law. Li Tian realized the domain would put him in danger if he could not break through it.

• Ling'er admitted the dark-gold scorch mark was eroding her Dao of Ghosts and slowing her intangibility.
• Ling'er declared she would no longer turn intangible and released the full power of her Dao of Ghosts.
• Ling'er covered the Arena in her Myriad Frost Domain and explained that its frost would slow Li Tian's attacks and let her strike his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Tian found that the frost was freezing his Force Law and slowing his Saintly Breath, leaving him struggling to find a way through the domain.

Li Tian unleashed his Myriad Jun Strike to break through Ling’er’s Myriad Frost Domain. The dark golden pillar of force shattered her icy barriers and reached her.

• Li Tian recognized that Ling’er’s domain accelerated Ghost’s Touch but argued that maintaining it drained her strength.
• Li Tian poured his remaining strength into his axe and released the Myriad Jun Strike.
• The dark golden pillar cleaved through the freezing mist and dismantled Ling’er’s Myriad Frost Domain.
• Ling’er raised a series of icy barriers, but the pillar shattered each one and reached her.

Li Tian's final dark-gold beam shattered Ling'er's last barrier and pierced her chest, destroying her body. With Ling'er gone, the freezing mist melted, leaving Li Tian standing in the Arena, empty-handed and covered in frost.

• Ling'er gathered all her Ghost Law to raise her strongest silver-white barrier against Li Tian's dark-gold beam.
• Li Tian's beam cracked the barrier and shattered it after three breaths.
• The beam pierced Ling'er's chest, and her body broke apart into silver-white fragments until she vanished.
• The silver-white freezing mist melted away, and Li Tian remained at the center of the Arena, his axe gone and frost covering his upper body.

After winning the fight, the frost-covered fighter collapsed at the edge of the Arena and was carried away. The spectators were relieved the battle had ended, though they joked that the two fighters had sounded like lovers.

• The victorious fighter struggled toward the edge of the Arena as frost spread across his body and blue blood spilled from his mouth.
• He told the silent spectators, “I finished the fight” and “I won,” then fell onto his back and closed his eyes.
• Someone lifted the fighter’s rigid body and carried him away from the Arena.
• The spectators sighed with relief and joked that the fighters’ constant banter had made them sound like Dao companions courting each other.

Li Tian won his Arena battle against the Chaos Ancient Clan, and the experts of Origin Continent saw his victory as a chance to identify strong successors. He left the Arena, while the other fighters waited for the next drawing of lots.

• The cultivators on both sides accepted Li Tian's victory, though the Chaos Ancient Clan's experts vowed to win the next round.
• Li Tian left the Arena after completing his task and chose not to watch battles beyond his level.
• A supreme expert in the Void praised Li Tian's victory and argued that fighters forged through battle were the ones worth nurturing.
• The Origin Continent experts continued using the Arena battles to buy time and select successors while the Chaos Ancient Clan pursued its own plans.

The Origin Continent’s powerhouses debated the difficulty of becoming a Saint, while an aged authority ordered them to let the chosen cultivators face their trials. Elsewhere, a silver-haired elder urged the Chaos Ancient Clan to attack, but the Mo Long refused to risk its life against the wounded Saint.

• The chapter explained that becoming a Saint required rare talent, fate, and innate fortune, and that even many Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saints had failed to cross the threshold.
• An aged authority told the supreme powerhouses to let the cultivators fight their way through the trials and warned that he would judge them afterward.
• A silver-haired elder asked the Mo Long why the Chaos Ancient Clan did not immediately invade the weakened Origin Continent.
• The Mo Long said the Origin Continent’s wounded Saint remained dangerous and refused to trade its life for a risky assault.

Mo Long rejected the silver-haired old man's proposal to attack the Origin Continent while its Saint still lived, confident that their ongoing battles would drain the Saint until he died. He revealed that the arena battle would help the Chaos Ancient Clan's thirty-six great clans divide the spoils, then resumed manipulating Causal Lines to force the Saint to spend his strength protecting people.

• The silver-haired old man urged Mo Long to attack while the Origin Continent's Saint was weak, but Mo Long refused because the Saint could still trade his life for Mo Long's.
• Mo Long said he had been draining the Saint's strength for millions of years and expected the Saint to seek a final battle before dying within a hundred thousand years.
• The silver-haired old man asked what would happen if the Saint did not come, and Mo Long angrily dismissed him.
• Mo Long explained that the arena battle would determine how the Chaos Ancient Clan's thirty-six great clans divided the spoils after conquering the Origin Continent.
• Mo Long sent the silver-haired old man away and resumed manipulating Causal Lines to kill people and force the Saint to protect them.

Saint prepared to begin another drawing despite the threat posed by the old dragon, while the Arena’s next match paired Sun Wang of the Spiritbright Monkey Clan against Devil Abyss of the Chaos Ancient Clan. The two fighters faced each other as Devil Abyss advanced, leaving their battle about to begin.

• Saint told the experts that he would stop the old dragon before he died, then announced that the drawing would begin.
• The Arena announced number thirty-one, and Sun Wang strode out in golden armor with a staff.
• Devil Abyss emerged from the Chaos Ancient Clan’s side, wreathed in black-purple demonic energy and carrying a magma-like black staff.
• Sun Wang and Devil Abyss introduced themselves and faced off at the center of the Arena.
• Devil Abyss advanced toward Sun Wang, scorching the stone beneath his steps.

Devil Abyss attacked Sun Wang with his black staff, but Sun Wang calmly redirected the blow and launched a precise counterthrust. The duel continued as Sun Wang's golden staff drove toward Devil Abyss's chest.

• Devil Abyss taunted Sun Wang and swung his black staff at Sun Wang's waist.
• Sun Wang struck the middle of Devil Abyss's staff with the end of his golden staff, deflecting the attack and dissipating much of its force.
• Devil Abyss recognized that Sun Wang could see and redirect the flow of power.
• Sun Wang thrust his golden staff toward the center of Devil Abyss's chest, concentrating golden law into its tip.

Sun Wang and Devil Abyss exchanged powerful staff strikes in the arena, and Sun Wang withstood a concealed attack hidden inside Devil Abyss's blow. The chapter ended with Devil Abyss reacting to Sun Wang's ability to see through his technique.

• Devil Abyss blocked Sun Wang's swift attack with his black staff, and their weapons released gold and violet shockwaves.
• Devil Abyss brought his black staff down with overwhelming force, but Sun Wang braced with his golden staff and held firm.
• Sun Wang sprang upward and pushed Devil Abyss's staff back, scattering sparks across the arena floor.
• Sun Wang explained that Devil Abyss had hidden a miniature Hell Demon Ape phantom in the strike as a follow-up attack aimed at his crown.
• Devil Abyss realized Sun Wang had accurately identified his concealed technique, and his expression turned more ferocious.

Sun Wang used his eyes to read the laws and hidden force in Devil Abyss’s attacks, then forced him to defend by targeting his body directly. Devil Abyss bled from the clash but grinned as he acknowledged Sun Wang’s irritating fighting style.

• Devil Abyss realized Sun Wang could see the flow of laws and the hidden force inside his staff.
• Sun Wang explained how he identified the weak point in Devil Abyss’s strike and drained much of its strength with a precise counter.
• Devil Abyss threw his spinning staff at Sun Wang, spreading its power across shifting currents and weak points.
• Sun Wang aimed his golden staff at Devil Abyss’s lower abdomen, forcing him to turn his attack into a guard.
• Their staffs collided with a powerful shockwave, sending both men back and leaving Devil Abyss with blood at the corner of his mouth.
• Devil Abyss wiped away the blood and admitted that Sun Wang’s body-targeting style forced him to abandon his offense.

Sun Wang explained how he read the law pulses behind Devil Abyss’s seemingly random attacks and evaded nearly all of them. Devil Abyss’s fighting spirit awakened, and the demonic energy around him began to pulse with growing force.

• Devil Abyss sent dark purple rays of demonic law flying unpredictably across the arena, and Sun Wang dodged or destroyed them with his golden staff.
• One ray grazed Sun Wang’s ankle and slowed the flow of Saintly Breath through his meridians, but he expelled the demonic energy and healed the wound.
• Devil Abyss praised Sun Wang’s speed and asked how he had anticipated the rays’ trajectories.
• Sun Wang explained that he could read the pulses in Devil Abyss’s laws and use their oscillation patterns to predict where the rays would shoot.
• Devil Abyss fell silent, then his demonic energy shifted into a rhythmic pulse as dark purple rings spread through his pupils and shockwaves filled the air around him.

Devil Abyss recognized that the Spiritbright Monkey Clan’s Fiery Golden Eyes could read the structure of his attacks, so he abandoned competing in staff techniques and unleashed his demonic power. He transformed into a towering, scaled ape as the Arena’s laws and restrictions began to corrode.

• Devil Abyss identified the Fiery Golden Eyes and explained how they let his opponent see through the structure of every attack.
• Devil Abyss declared he would compete in strength instead of staff techniques.
• Devil Abyss released a dark-purple demonic vortex that spread across the Arena and corroded its Gold-Patterned Restrictions.
• The demonic energy eroded the Coiling Dragon Pillars, making their laws flicker and crack.
• Devil Abyss grew into a scaled, fanged ape with burning demonic eyes, and a gigantic phantom emerged behind him.

Devil Abyss revealed his Hell Demon Ape True Form and challenged Sun Wang to find a weakness in his power. Sun Wang summoned a golden giant ape apparition to face Devil Abyss’s descending attack.

• Devil Abyss transformed his demonic energy into a giant ape wielding a massive black staff.
• Devil Abyss invoked Ten Thousand Demons Return to Origin and challenged Sun Wang to identify a weakness in the distribution of his laws.
• Devil Abyss raised his arm and sent a colossal, vortex-covered giant ape fist crashing toward Sun Wang.
• Sun Wang raised his golden staff and summoned a golden giant ape apparition that absorbed Saintly Breath and formed a defensive barrier of laws.

Sun Wang used his speed and precise staff strikes to exploit gaps in Devil Abyss's Demonic Ape True Form, wounding him despite their clash shaking the Arena and its protections. Devil Abyss inspected the blood beneath his jaw and licked it from his fingers as the battle continued.

• Sun Wang's Spiritbright True Form: Battle Heaven clashed with Devil Abyss's dark-purple fist, tearing open the laws above the Arena and intensifying damage to its pillars and protective screens.
• Sun Wang broke away from his golden ape phantom and attacked Devil Abyss with a flurry of golden afterimages.
• Devil Abyss answered with dozens of punches that sent miniature dark-purple ape phantoms against Sun Wang's afterimages.
• Sun Wang struck Devil Abyss's left arm, the back of his right knee, and the soft flesh beneath his jaw, breaking scales and opening a deep wound.
• Sun Wang explained that Devil Abyss's expanded form exposed weak points around his joints and between his scales.
• Devil Abyss touched the wound beneath his jaw, inspected the blood on his fingertips, and licked it off.

Devil Abyss revealed a powerful rune that dragged Sun Wang toward him, and Sun Wang answered with a final concentrated strike. Their attack and defense collided, freezing the Arena in a moment of silence.

• Devil Abyss said Sun Wang had slowed and revealed a dark-purple rune in his palm.
• The rune generated a powerful suction force that pulled Sun Wang and stripped away the Gold-Patterned Restriction.
• Sun Wang followed the pull and condensed his remaining strength into a thin golden ray at his staff’s tip.
• Devil Abyss turned the rune into a multilayered dark-purple barrier as Sun Wang reached him.
• Sun Wang’s golden ray struck the barrier, and the Arena and both giant ape phantoms froze in a moment of silence.

Sun Wang defeated Devil Abyss after finding a flaw in his barrier and striking through it, though the battle left Sun Wang gravely wounded. He walked away from the Arena as the spectators recognized his victory.

• Sun Wang's final strike shattered Devil Abyss's barrier and left both fighters badly injured.
• Sun Wang explained that he had spotted a tiny gap in the barrier caused by a tremor in Devil Abyss's laws.
• Devil Abyss admitted defeat and crumbled into dark-purple light that vanished from the Arena.
• Sun Wang picked up his staff, walked out of the Arena, and turned toward the Chaos Ancient Clan.
• A spectator declared that Old Sun had won the battle.

After Sun Wang won his second consecutive battle, the Origin Continent cultivators regained their confidence and looked toward the remaining fights. Blade Saint Heaven Severance waited impatiently for Ye Lin to compete, suspecting the drawing of lots was rigged.

• Sun Wang left the Arena exhausted after securing his second consecutive victory, and the other cultivators urged him to rest.
• The Origin Continent cultivators drew confidence from Sun Wang’s win and regarded the meditating Ye Lin as a guaranteed point.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan experts cursed Devil Abyss after his defeat and death, blaming him for throwing away their advantage.
• Blade Saint Heaven Severance wondered why Ye Lin had not been chosen yet and suspected something shady about the drawing of lots.